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G. S. BARTON.

Steam Drier.

Patented Feb. 231869.

Inventor:

Witnesses:

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GEORGE S. BARTON, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO RICE, BARTON, AND FALES MACHINE AND IRON COMPANY, OFTHE SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 86,350, dated Februa/ry 2, 1869.

- The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Know all men by these presents:

That LGEOBGE S. BARTON, of the city and county of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Steam-Driers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents a side View of so much of a steamdrying machine as is necessary to illustrate my improvement, and

Figure 2 repcresents a longitudinal central section of the same.

To enable those skilled in the art to which my invcntion belongs, to make and use the same. I will proceed to describe it more in detail.

The nature of my invention consists in the peculiar combination of devices for admitting steam and removing water from the drying-cylinders, as hereinafter explained.

In the drawings,'the part marked A is a metallic hub, which is to be secured to the outer end of the bearing or journal of the drying-cylinder, by means of the flange a and screw-thread 11.

Through a circular opening in the hub A, passes a stationary journal, B, having two openings or passages, C and D, entending through it longitudinally.

To the outer end, 0, of the opening or passage C is fitted the end of the steam-supply pipe, and the steam is carried through the passage C and discharged into the interior of the drying-cylinder from the aperture e at the top of the stationary journal B.

To the inner end of the journal B is secured the siphon-pipe E, the end f of which should reach nearly to the bottom of the interior of the drying-cylinder, which is constructed and operated in the usual manner.

The opening of the siphon-pipe E communicates with the passage or opening I) in the stationary journal B, and, through the opening D,-'with the exhaust or waste-pipc, which. is to be attached at g to the enlarged end, B, of the stationary journal B The joint of the journal B, which passes through the hub A, is made steam-tight by means of packing F, in a-stnfiing-box, G, formed in the outer end of the hub A.

The packing may be tightened by the screws and nuts H.

The journal B is prevented from working out endwise by means of a collar, K, secured to the inner end side of the cylinder, keeps the collar K forced or pressed against the face 'm of the hub A, which renders the joint between the hub A and stationary journal B nearly steam-tight, even without the packing F.

The steam enters the cylinder from the supply-pipe through the passage or opening 0 C e, and the water, caused by the condensation of the steam in the cylinder, is, by the pressure of the steam, forced up through the siphon-pipe E, and the passage or opening D g, and passes off through the exhaust or waste-pipe.

The collar K can readily be turned up, when desired, to retain the parts in proper relative position.

In case of any derangement of the parts, the hub A can easily be unscrewed from the end of the journal of the drying-cylinder.

. By my improvement or invention, the steam can be admitted and the water removed from the drying-cylinders at the same end, in a more convenient manner and with less trouble than by the modes heretofore in use.

It will be understood that the hub A turns with the journal of the drying-cylinder, while the journal B, together with the steam and exhaust-pipes, remains sta tionary.

By the use of a stationary journal, B, having a steam and water-passage through the same, a more firm and compact connection'gis formed with the cylinder and steam and exhaust-pipes than can be produced by the use of two separate pipes, as heretofore used; besides, much labor and'annoyance are saved in fitting the connections, while all soldering of the pipes is obviated.

Having described my improvement in steam-driers, \Vhat I claim therein as new, and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the hub A and stationary journal B, having two passages C I5, of the stufiingbox G and collar K, the parts being constructed and combined together, substantially as shown and described.

GEO. S. BARTON.

Witnesses:

D. L. MILLER, Grno. H. MILLER. 

